Dicey Tales #2

Dicey Tales is a periodical that features articles supporting the Barbarians of Lemuria (BoL) roleplaying game. Our goal is to expand the reach of BoL beyond Sword & Sorcery into the full realm of the pulps. Every issue features official expansions of the BoL rules allowing the system to encompass all of the various genres of pulp adventure- Two-fisted adventure, Western, Outer Space, Lost World, and many more.

Issue #2 of Dicey Tales continues our two-part foray into the classic adventure pulps. With this issue of Dicey Tales we have included a pulp bestiary, information on enhancing "contacts" for your pulp campaign, and several new Boons and Flaws. In addition, we have also included a 1930's pulp adventure and two Sword & Sorcery adventures.

All officially approved for use with the Barbarians of Lemuria: Legendary Edition rules.

Whilst Dicey Tales #1 was excellent as a source book for the pulp genre, Dicey Tales #2 moves into a slightly different, and in my opinion, possibly better area. It is now, in essence, a proper "fanzine" for the BoL system - albeit with superb producti [...]

Another great BoL product from Evil DM And it not only fleshes out the Pulp Era, but the core BoL as well. You get some great new rules (some of the Boons and Flaws will be modded for my own homebrew BoL adventures) and not one, not two, but 3 adven [...]

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